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Konami Announces Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls

Plenty of IPs are locked down on Konami’s domain – Metal Gear
just hit the fan with SURVIVE and a slew of pachinko, the Silent Hills that
never happened, the death of Suikoden, and of course, Castlevania. In what
seems to be a new development for the vampire-slaying classic. Entitled Castlevania:
Grimoire of Souls, Konami’s upcoming title looks to relive its glory, but on
full mobile glory.

We’re actually relying on our Google Fu with the translation
here, so bear with us a bit. As far as the story goes, well, “The future where
Earl Dracula completely disappeared. It seemed like eternal peace had come to
the world. However, with a single letter delivered under Araki Gensui, an end
was going to be struck in the peaceful era.”

"The Count of Dracula where the magic book went awry
revived" In order to ascertain the meaning of the word written in the
letter, Mr. Arima visited the sender of the letter ....”

We’re not really sure where this is going, but we’re digging
its key concept arts and in-game graphics. For one, Ayami Kojima looks to
return as the concept artist of Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, and Konami is
retaining its two-dimensional visuals that look to relive its glory from the
yesteryears.

Multiplayer is where it’s at.

“In addition to the familiar solo play in the series, an
exhilarating battle where you can enjoy a fight with up to 4 people!

That’s pretty clear for Google’s translation right there,
which explains that the game’s core focus is multiplayer where you can play
with up to four people. We’re not sure if this is going to be local or online,
but our money is on the latter.

Meet the characters

"Aruma Genta, the main character of this work, and Lucy who
is its support role.

You can use charming characters of successive devil castle,
centering on two people."

Poster characters such as Alucard, Simon Belmont, Charlotte
Aulin, Shanoa, and Maria Renard seem to also be present in the game.

You can now pre-register as a beta tester if you know your
Japanese and you have at least an iPhone 6S or later, an iPad 5th gen
or later, an iPad Air 2 or later, bah you get the point.

Is this a step on the right direction for Konami? What do
you guys think?